http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

 

 

First of all, I would like to say that is an awesome story. I would REALLY like to see the transcript of that interview because I bet that guy was coming with some pretty off-the-wall stuff. Why wouldn't he have come back from the future in '97 and exploited the bubble of the stock market to easily earn tens of billions of dollars, and do it in a time where EVERYBODY is making money and the SEC doesn't have time to notice it all?

Second, how classic would it be if this guy told us where Osama was and how to cure AIDS? Now that would be truly unreal.

 

My first thoughts...

- why would someone 200+ years in the future want 200 year old American money? If you went back to 1800 and made even the equivalent of $350,000,000 ... what good would such currency do for you today?

- if you could get your money in electronic form, I doubt it would be good in the future. What we use to protect our electronic money today will be obsolete 10 years from now let alone 200 years from now. It would be considered fraud by future authorities.

- Relativity only allows for travel to the future. Of course, Einstein could be wrong (hey, science is often wrong hahahahah *nudge* *nudge*).

jason

 

Okay, yeah I could point out another ten reasons why this whole story makes no sense, but all it would take for this to blow apart multiple scientific and other paradigms would be for this guy to tell us exactly where to find Osama and how to cure AIDS. Think about it.

 

did this guy mention that super computers in the future would rule over man?

 

Steppin, yeah, that would be a phatty trip. But then he already knows if he's the guy who tell it, right? Or maybe he tells and there's this big cover up and that's why the future time cops dont try to stop him from going back. Or the future time cops know that he must go back because it saves the worlds and the timeline must be carried out.

Or, dammit, I've been watching WAY TOO MUCH STAR TREK!

jason

 

They already do. The NSA owns them.

jason

 

Holy CRAP!

"How to turn $800 into $350,000,000 in two weeks"!!! by Anonymous Time Traveler.

I would totally buy that book.

Weekly World News...

 

care to elaborate on what those computers do??

and yes you have been watching too much star trek

 

AFAIK, the NSA's computers watch more communications traffic than is conceivible and track in pretty much real time, looking for various phrases and words. This is just one function of the NSA and I presume just one function of their super computers.

The largest computer I know about is the Japanese Earth Simulator, with an achievable power of 35.6 TeraFlops. Where I work the largest unclassified computer in the US resides, pumping out a theoretical 10 TeraFlops.

Pure speculation, but I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA, and perhaps the DOD have computers that already hit the 0.5 PetaFlop mark :O ... currently LBNL/NERSC is looking 4 or 5 years into the future for starting the first unclassified 1 Peta Flop computer... they big, secretive boys I am sure are at least halfway there already.

jason

 

This article is written by Chad Kultgen and he works for weekly world news tabloid. Most likely a fake story.

Check out the stuff they write about.
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/

 

I thought it was most obvious that the guy actually 'worked' for the money instead of just winning the fatty Powerball jackpot a couple months ago...